[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2020-2021, FIBGAR supported the work of the Panel of Independent Experts convened by the Stop Ecocide Foundation to develop a legal definition of ecocide as the fifth crime of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The panel was composed of twelve jurists from different parts of the world with...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2019-2021, together with Ecological Defence Integrity, FIBGAR financed and supported the completion of a doctoral thesis on the crime of ecocide, which will be an essential input for the debates we are promoting on the adoption of an international convention and the modification of the Statute of the International Criminal...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"]Between 2016 and 2018, FIBGAR led A Change of Direction, a project co-funded by the Internal Security Fund of the European Commission and aimed at creating a protection framework to ensure the overall integrity of alerters in the European Union and its member states. Together with other European institutions and organisations (Università...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"] In 2018, FIBGAR launched the Universal Jurisdiction website, with the aim of providing a tool for the study and development of the principle of Universal Jurisdiction. It is a project of collective elaboration, in which around thirty volunteers and students have participated, in addition to having had the collaboration and contributions of...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"]With the aim of discussing the draft Principles of Universal Jurisdiction approved at the I International Congress on Universal Jurisdiction in 2014, FIBGAR organized regional working groups and 6 seminars were held in Puerto Rico, Paraguay, the Netherlands, Spain and South Africa, gathering the support of more than 100 international experts. In...
[vc_row content_width="grid"][vc_column width="7/12" el_class="project-text"][vc_column_text el_class="justify-text"]The I International Congress on Universal Jurisdiction, held in Madrid, Spain, from May 20 to 23 2014, brought together 47 speakers from 10 different nationalities, creating a forum for reflection and debate on the limits and obstacles to achieving an effective Universal Jurisdiction at the global level. For four days, judges, prosecutors,...
